It’s worth watching this video, I swear. MTV finally bit the bullet and dropped the words “Music Television” from its logo. This should make me cackle cynically—and it does—but it also makes me a little sad. When I...

Above: Indie label band Vivian Girls. The great fallacy of free market ideology is believing that people will choose to make money over screwing the little guy. There is no reason to think this. Sometimes the need to make money outweighs the...

To make this blogathon more fun, I thought I would give you all some music videos to listen to, honoring the musical legacy of our great swing states. Because nothing makes me feel more like a patriot than thinking of American pop music, which...